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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. II . CHs . 278-280 . 1929 . February 20, 1929 .

CHAP. 278 .-An Act To authorize the Postmaster General to hire vehicles [II. R. 13451.]

fr om letter carriers for use in servic e . [Public, No . 786.] Postal Service .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the R.S.sec.3850,p.752, United States o f America in Congress assembled, That section 3850 amended . U.S.Code,p . 1238 . of the Revised Statutes (United States Code, title 39, section 52) be amended by the addition of the following : ca r- " Provided, That beginning with the fiscal year 1928, and there- and after, the Postmaster General may hire vehicles from letter carriers for use in the city delivery and collection service, either under an allowance or on a contract basis ." Approved, February 20, 1929 . Vehicles may hi red from lett er riers for delivery collection service. February 20, 1929 . [H . R. 13977.] [Public, No . 787.] Indian ir rig at ion projects. Payment from funds of, for damages to pri- vate property by con- struction, etc. Proviso . Limit of amount . February 20, 1929. [H. R.15732.]

CHAP. 280.-An Act Making an additional grant of lands for miners' hos- [Public, No . 788.] pitals for disabled miners of the States of Utah and Arizona, and for other purp oses . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Public lands. Gran t to Utah for United States of America in Congress ass embled, That in addition disabled miners' hos- to the provisions made by the Act of Congress approved July 16, pital increased . Vol.28,p . 11o. 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 110), for a miners' hospital for disabled miners, there is hereby granted to the State of Utah, subject to all the conditions and limitations of the original grant, an additional fifty thousand acres for a miners' hospital for disabled miners to be selected by the State, under the direction and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from vacant nonmineral surveyed unreserved public lands of the United States in Excluding lands for reclamation or national the State of Utah and not to include lands that are likely to be park projects .

needed hereafter for inclusion in Federal reclamation or national park projects. Arizona' Additio nal grant to , SEC . 2 . That in addition to t he provisions contained in the Act miners fo vol 3e, ' hos ita1

of Congress approved June 20, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large), for miners' hospitals for disabled miners, there is hereby granted to the State of Arizona, subject to all the conditions and limitations contained in said Act, fifty thousand acres of land for miners' hospitals for disabled miners within said State, said land to be selected from the surveyed, unreserved, unappropriated, and non- mineral lands of the United States within the limits of said State, in the manner provided by said Act approved June 20, 1910 . Approved, February 20, 1929 . CHAP. 279 .-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to settle cla ims by agree ment arising under opera tion of India n irrigation projects . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tha t the Secreta ry of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay out of funds available for the Indian irrigation projects for damages caused to owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works of- such projects and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, or such officers as he may designate : Provided, That the total of any such claims authorized to be settled as herein contemplated shall not exceed 5 per centum of the funds available for the project under which such claims arise during any one fiscal year . Approved, February 20, 1929 .